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Biological Chemistry Seminar Series 2009-2010


Date Name Title Faculty Host

03/09

Dr. Catherine L. Drennan, Professor of Chemistry and Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Investigator and Professor, Howard Hughes Institute

Crystallographic Snapshots of Metalloproteins in Action

Distinguished Graduate Lecture

05/09

Dr. Ursula Jakob, Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular and Developmental Biology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan,

The Yin and Yang of Oxidative Protein Unfolding

Seminar

07/15/09

Edgar L. Lee, Doctoral Candidate in Biological Chemistry
Mentor: Dr. Ari Gafni

Pancreatic Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Membrane Binding and Permeabilization

Doctorial Defense

09/17/09

Ruma Banerjee, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Redox remodeling in adaptive immunity and autoimmune diseases

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium

09/17/09

Toren Finkel, M.D., National Institutes of Health

Mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in stem and progenitor cell biology

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium

09/17/09

Mark Gladwin, M.D., University of Pittsburgh

Haldane, hot dogs and halitosis: The emerging biology of the nitrite anion

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium

09/17/09

Chuan He, PH.D., University of Chicago

Redox regulation of virulence and antibiotic resistance in human pathogens

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium

09/17/09

Ursula Jakob, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Oxidative stress and redox regulation

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium

09/17/09

Leslie Poole, Ph.D., Wake Forest University

Protein sulfenic acids in cell signaling related catalysis and regulation

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium

09/17/09

Nicholas Tonks, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor

Redox regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatases Therapeutic implications

Redox Signaling and Disease Symposium

07/09

David J. Pinsky, M.D., Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Director, Cardiovascular Center, A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Paradoxes and inspirations: Potential therapeutic effects of a deadly gas

Seminar

07/09

Gregory S. Payne, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

Regulation and dynamics of clathrin adaptors

Seminar

07/09

John D. Lipscomb, Professor
The Department of Biochemistry
University of Minnesota

The Many Facets of 02 Activation by Non-Heme Iron-Containing Enzymes

Seminar

10/01

Ashley Reinke

Development of chemical probes for the selective recognition of amyloid-beta conformations: toward next generation diagnostics for Alzheimer's disease

Graduate Student Research Seminar

10/22

Dave Pai

Spatial coordination of nuclear gene transcription

Graduate Student Research Seminar

10/29

Nirupama Gupta

Thiol-based redox modulation of transcriptional regulators: CprK and Rev-Erb β

Graduate Student Research Seminar

07/09

Cherisse Loucks

TOPIC

Graduate Student Research Seminar

01/07

Corissa Lamphear

Molecular recognition of protein substrates by FTase and GGTase-1

Graduate Student Research Seminar

01/14

Donald Raymond

Structural biology of the Rift Valley fever virus Nucleocapsid protein

Graduate Student Research Seminar

07/09

Sean Ferris

TOPIC

Graduate Student Research Seminar

07/09

Heather Dickson

TOPIC

Graduate Student Research Seminar

07/09

Shameka Shelby

TOPIC

Graduate Student Research Seminar

07/09

Justin Hassler

TOPIC

Graduate Student Research Seminar

07/09

Jennifer Gehret

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Laura Confer

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Claudia McDonald

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Amber Smith

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Swathi Krishnan

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Gerwin Westfiel

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Noah Wolfson

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Joseph Micucci

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Syan (Stewart) Cao

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Cody Vild

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Mark Taylor

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Liliya Mancour

TOPIC

711 Graduate Seminar

07/09

Fred Guengerich, Professor, Vanderbilt University

Interactions of DNA Polymerases with Damaged DNA: Interpreting the Details of Mutation Errors

Seminar

11/17/09

Jared D. Chrispell, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
Mentor: Dr. Debra A. Thompson, Ph.D.

Characterization of RPE65 and RDH12, Two Enzymes Associated with Retinal and Retinoid Processing

Dissertation Defense

11/24/09

Feng Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
Mentor: Dr. Ming Lei, Ph.D.

Structural Analyses of Telomere Associated Proteins

Dissertation Defense

12/01/09

Tushar Menon, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
Mentor: Dr. Daniel A. Bochar, Ph.D.

Regulation of Androgen-Responsive Transcription by the Chromatin Remodeling Enzyme CHD8

Dissertation Defense

12/11/09

Abigail E. Wolfe, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
Mentor: Dr. Patrick J. O'Brien, Ph.D.

Kinetic Mechanism for Binding and Flipping of Damaged Bases by Alkyladenine DNA Glycosylase

Dissertation Defense

02/05/10

Stacie L. Bulfer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
Mentor: Dr. Raymond C. Trievel, Ph.D.

Structure, Mechanism and Regulation of Homocitrate Synthase

Dissertation Defense

03/09/10

David Katzmann, Mayo Clinic

Regulation of the AAA ATPase Vps4 During ESCRT Function

Zhaohui Xu

03/16/10

Steve Gygi, Harvard University

TOPIC

Greenberg Lectureship

03/23/10

Tom Hollis, Wake Forest University

Title of Talk

Pat O'Brien

03/30/10

Alex Brown, Vanderbilt University

Lipidomics: a systems biology approach to analysis of signaling
networks.

Bill Smith

04/06/10

Forest White, MIT

Title of Talk

Phil Andrews

04/13/10

David Davies, NIH

Ludwig Lectureship

Bill Smith

04/19/10

Samuel G. Gattis, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
Mentor: Dr. Carol A. Fierke, Ph.D.

Mechanism and Metal Specificity of Zn-dependent Deacetylases

Dissertation Defense

04/20/10

John Kuriyan, UC Berkeley

Title of Talk

Matt Young

04/27/10

Nabil G. Seidah, Institute for Clinical Research, Montreal

TBA

Bob Fuller

04/28/10

Li Yi, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
Mentor: Dr. Stephen W. Ragsdale, Ph.D.

Characterization of the Redox Switches in Human Heme Oxygenase-2 and a Human Heme-responsive Potassium Channel

Dissertation Defense

05/04/10

J.G. Tesmer

TBA

Bill Smith